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title: Much of food-factory work is really about germs: milk is heated to k… — Crisps, bread, cereal and dairy · tree and pragmatics
description: Much of food-factory work is really about germs: milk is heated to kill them, yoghurt has friendly ones added on purpose, and soup is sealed in a can before it is heated so no new germs can get in. Who acts: Much, yoghurt, new germs. A sentence of the lesson «Crisps, bread, cereal and dairy» of the 
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# Crisps, bread, cereal and dairy, sentence 2

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Much of food-factory work is really about germs: milk is heated to kill them, yoghurt has friendly ones added on purpose, and soup is sealed in a can before it is heated so no new germs can get in.

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**Who acts:** Much, yoghurt, new germs · **What happens:** be, heat, kill, have, add, seal · **To what, where:** milk, germs, friendly ones, purpose, soup, can

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Crisps, bread, cereal and dairy» of the technology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Much, yoghurt, new germs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:003-crisps-bread-cereal-and-dairy.lesson:2
# text = Much of food-factory work is really about germs: milk is heated to kill them, yoghurt has friendly ones added on purpose, and soup is sealed in a can before it is heated so no new germs can get in.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 003-crisps-bread-cereal-and-dairy.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
5	factory	factory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	really	really	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	heated	heat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:xcomp
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	yoghurt	yoghurt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
21	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	sealed	seal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	can	can	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	heated	heat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	advcl	_	_
38	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
39	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	41	det	_	_
40	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nsubj	_	_
42	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	advcl	_	_
44	in	in	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=43:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Much of factory work |  |  |  |  | about germs | tree rules |
| 2 | **heat** | present · passive |  | milk |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **kill** | to-infinitive |  | germs *= germ* |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | present | yoghurt | friendly ones |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 5 | **add** *speech: assert* | participle |  | friendly ones *not said here* |  | purpose |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **seal** | present · passive |  | soup |  | a can |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 7 | **heat** | present · passive |  | soup |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 8 | **get in** | can | no new germs |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:technology:003-crisps-bread-cereal-and-dairy.lesson:2`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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